Here are some more photos of Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello at the Met Gala on Monday. I think he came to NYC to be with Sofia during her publicity tour for Hot Pursuit, plus he wanted to escort her to the Met Gala. I think that’s their dynamic, at least I hope that’s their dynamic. I want to believe that Joe is very much a “You do what you want for your career and I’ll support you every step of the way” kind of guy. Unlike Sofia’s ex, Nick Loeb.
As we discussed last week, Nick Loeb wrote a New York Times op-ed about his lawsuit against Sofia. He wants custody of the two embryos they created together, because he believes “life begins at fertilization” and he wants to implant the embryos into a gestational carrier and raise the babies himself. Sofia is fine with the embryos remaining frozen. Loeb’s op-ed was particularly crazy, and seemed very much like an attempt to publicly manipulate and humiliate his ex-fiancée. Up until this point, Sofia has only released one official statement (her publicist has leaked a few tabloid stories though). But on Monday, Sofia appeared on the Howard Stern show and of course Stern asked her about everything. Here’s the audio – the Loeb stuff starts around the 38:30 mark. (Some minor NSFW language.)
Sofia said that didn’t read Loeb’s NYT op-ed, and when asked about Loeb’s lawsuit, she says it “makes no sense” and a child “needs a loving relationship of parents that get along, that don’t hate each other…I don’t hate him but he obviously has a problem with me! A kid needs parents. I wouldn’t imagine anyone saying that it’s sane to bring to the world kids that are already set up, everything wrong for them. It would be so selfish.”
When asked about the legal standing Loeb has, Sofia just sort of shrugs it off, saying, “There is law. You signed papers, legal papers, and if it was so serious for him, this issue – which I totally respect it is serious for someone – then you should have taken it more serious at the time like I did…there is a contract.” She explains it in more detail and says she isn’t worried about a judge siding with Loeb because their two contracts (they did it twice, after all) are completely valid.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.
“then you should have taken it more serious at the time”
Boom. Good for you girl! I love that she explained the situation while totally calling him out for his feigned concern. He is such a disgusting slime ball.
IKR? And homie signed the contract TWICE. Also don’t they kill some embryos during IVF? Only 2 survived what has he to say about the death of the other embryos? This guy comes across as sleazy, manipulative and a loser. Find a woman who wants to carry your children and move on buddy. Waiting to see what woman wants to carry the children of his ex-girlfriend to term.
Some embryos aren’t viable too small need to be 6-10mm so if smaller they don’t use. He sounds crazy and lucky she is rid of him.
Full agreement with both of you.
Though there are lots of surrogates who will carry any child to term for a price.
Some women [including Wendy Williams] are on his side. Weird.
Because — if they were still together and he said we have to have these babies right now, no one would defend THAT. It obviously has to be a mutual decision.
So if they’re broken up, it’s even MORE obvious that he can’t make a decision affecting both of them.
I TOTALLY LOVE THIS WOMAN. I think she is VERY funny…Even when not scripted…she is a riot. Watching her on Jimmy Fallen was a prime example of her comedic timing…Paired with Jimmy’s always amusing reactions…they were hilarious! She’s drop dead gorgeous too…which doesn’t hurt her success at all. I hope she finds happiness with this new love of hers.
This whole situation makes me feel so uncomfortable. I feel like we are witnessing a man victimize a woman in public. She seems very strong, but I am so sorry she has to go through this. He is such an ass.
I feel the same way. The guy’s a creep. Move on, dude. I’m guessing he can’t find another woman. Gee, with his winning personality? *eye roll*
Wow, thanks. Why is he given a platform about such an intimate topic? He is obviously trying to shame her or so it seems. This is in the category of psychological abuse, IMO, and wonder if this will be a crime sometime in our future.
What does he have to gain from this mess, anyway?
I honestly don’t believe he actually wants her children … so what’s the end game?
I think it drives him crazy that she has moved on and is happy. He’s a miserable human, and is trying to make her miserable as well IMO.
Wow if it’s just because of that he really is a sad, miserable, moron, isn’t he?
She is putting herself in trouble, legal trouble regarding to this case. She will regret giving this interview. Why she couldn’t restrain herself from talking ? Why so much drama?
She’s standing up for herself. Why do you think it will cause trouble?
Really? And you think the NYT op-ed was quiet and restrained? She has every right to respond publicly unless a judge has issued a gag order. And that hasn’t happened (yet).
I’m not sure if you listened to the portion of the interview where they are discussing this. There was no drama at all. In fact her whole attitude was pretty matter-of-fact. She did not paint herself as a victim at all.
She simply said law is law.
Why?She answered a question and I think she handled it as best as she could.This ex of her’s is a creep and seem’s bitter.She on the other hand sounds happy and looking forward with her life.
Did she tweeted: Howard, you got me in the a lot of trouble for talking! My gf follows her. I really hope that all will turn good for her.
no, she tweeted that “u made me talk to much” in regards to his show, and who knows if she was referring to that aspect? he gets people to say LOTS of things they normally wouldn’t.
if you choose to make the jump from “talking too much” to “in legal trouble”, I can’t stop you but I think you might have overstated it.
Gea – Her tweet seemed more like funny and actually said “U made me talk toooo much sternshow!” Not that she was in trouble.
I took it to be about all the sexual type of things they discussed, which were many. She also tweeted that day about “the things the Ellen show makes me do!!” and that was about having strippers dancing around her on the show.
I never followed Vergara on Twitter but have begun to since this jerk began stalking her. Just a small show of support.
Gea
Maybe trouble regarding her very conservative fanbase, but certainly not legal trouble. Unless, Nick is mad she said he has a problem with her?
In the end she’s going to win. She will gain a new fanbase to cover whatever she loses for standing up for herself. And I doubt she’ll really lose too many in the long run. And the contract is solid. He’s just trying to embarrass her and manipulate her. We all saw he was terrible while dating with his actions. He’ just reinforcing that now.
She’ll be fine once this blows over.
Yes. Because everyone knows that talking on the Howard Stern show about legally binding contracts will play a big role in court proceedings.
Lol she says she is in trouble and talking too much because Stern keeps asking her about sex with Joe and how big his ding dong is.
Zombie Shortcake
… Did she give an answer?…
LMAO at FLORC…you naughty thing!
@Gea–
How long have you worked for Nick?
He’s just trying to get in her head.
Yep. He is an abuser and this is what abusive people do.
so true…
His connection to her helps hawk his hot dog condiment line:
http://nypost.com/2013/03/05/whats-sofia-vergara-doing-with-this-guy/
“I’m a hustler” – Nick Loeb
Exactly! He’s an abusive man who is using this lawsuit as a means to insinuate himself into her life and control her.
I remember stories about him being abusive to her while they were together. This is emotionally abusive and manipulative. He’s sick and continuing the cycle of abuse.
Running for office on the backs of the religious right.
I think STILL his end game is Political, and the side benefit is Smearing an ex that ended in bad terms … which she then had the NERVE of moving on Quickly
He just wants to control her, and “punish” her for having the good sense to kick him to the curb. If he gains control of the embryos, he can then tie her to him financially for at least 18 more years. If Sofia Vergara had any lingering doubts about the wisdom of break off with this guy, his present behavior should be enough to dispel them.
Good for her but he’s not going to shut up about and while I understand that she wants to give her side of the story (as she should) she is feeding his ego and hate – by walking away and keeping silent he’ll soon get bored of embarrassing himself, they usually do eventually.
I think she needed to do this interview to let people know the facts. Then she can now keep quiet and let the douche bury himself with his Op-Eds.
Yeah, she pretty clearly put her side out there – they each signed the contract, law’s the law, end of story. I hope she doesn’t feel the need to ever say anything else on it again, and doesn’t give him one more second of thought or attention. That’s all he’s after anyway.
You really should just listen to the interview. She sounds completely disinterested in him. When asked if she saw the article, she says nope. Somebody told her it was crap so she didnt bother. When asked how Joe is taking it, shes like they dont even discuss it. Its a contract issue for lawyers and that Joe and her are busy promoting their movie and moving into their new house. The only time she ventures is to laugh saying that this guy who she is now indifferent about seems to hate her and thats in response to Howards prodding.
Shes handled it great if you ask me. She stated her argument and made it clear she has hired to people to handle it so she isnt bothered.
He’s prepared to raise the girls as a single dad. Is she saying that everyone who chooses to be a single parent is selfish?
No. No she is not.
It sounds like, kind of. Like if you purposely impregnate your self
It sounds like, kind of. Like if you purposely impregnate your self (or a surrogate) with sperm /embryo from an ex who you’re not on good terms with, you’re starting the baby’s life off very wrongly. But that’s necessarily not saying anything about those people who choose to continue a pregancy though single, or those who use donors/or paid surogates to become parents alone. Sounds like she is not commenting either way on those cases.
I don’t think she is saying that.
What she is implying is that these two children would be brought into the world already embroiled in a very, very messy relationship between the parents with all kinds of baggage and issues to deal. Her point was that to willingly bring children into the current state of things is that part she feels is selfish.
Howard goes on to point out that if it happened, this idea that he can raise them on his own is a straw man argument because she would not be able to ignore her two children.
This, coupled with her explanation that at no point during the TWO times they signed contracts did he bring any of this up or express his feelings, also implied his selfishness or some time of angle on his part.
She made a good point to say that after the failure of the first attempt there was time between signing the second contract where he could have tried to amend or change the contracts and he did not.
Exactly.
You know if she allowed it, he wouldn’t leave her alone and raise the kids. He’d be crying in op-eds and People magazine about how she abandoned her children or something, and spend his life bad mouthing her. It would be a very bad and unhealthy situation.
Yeah. She’s also saying that I’m fat and have no friends. I read between the lines
This made me laugh.
Lol.
yeps…that’s exactly what she said 😉
Lol!
Lol, exactly. People can reacchhhh sometimes.
mia girl says:
May 6, 2015 at 8:20 am
I don’t think she is saying that.
What she is implying is that these two children would be brought into the world already embroiled in a very, very messy relationship between the parents with all kinds of baggage and issues to deal. Her point was that to willingly bring children into the current state of things is that part she feels is selfish.
BINGO.
@dr mantis toboggan, ha!
Just because he says he will raise the children himself doesn’t stop them from being her children if they are born. What’s she going to do, ignore them and have no part in their lives? She’s saying that it’s irresponsible to bring a child into this situation on purpose, and it is. If it happens accidentally, you deal with it. But why bring a child into the world knowing that will connect you forever to a man you loathe and don’t respect? She didn’t want that, and it’s in the contract that he’s now attempting to break just to get back at her. She’s not the bad person here.
Exactly. She never ever signed on to be an egg donor. Walking away from offspring can be noble ofcourse but it defintely requires a certain mental and emotional fortitude. She shouldnt be forced to become a donor just because he thinks he can raise them alone.
Sofia is a single mother. She has a son with her high school sweetheart/ first husband. (They married very young and divorced after a couple years of marriage.) I think she speaks from experience here, on the realities of being a single parent. So I would speculate she would not be judgemental toward single mothers (i.e. Herself).
Also, I think his behavior proves he is not up to the task of raising a child. Especially solo. Classic abussive behavior, still trying to control her even though it is over. Yikes!
I’m a single parent by choice (who’s gotten my share of comments about how selfish I am), and I’m not at all offended by Sofia’s comment. I think her point is that children shouldn’t be deliberately brought into a situation that is already full of strife before their birth. My son is being raised in a stable, peaceful home, and I have nothing but appreciation for his donor for helping us to be a family and helping to make my son exactly the person he is.
These poor little girls would be not nothing but revenge babies/pandering to Nick’s political constituency. It’s not fair to Sofia or fair to them. To me it would be the same as a couple on the verge of divorce deliberately having a baby — Band-Aid babies are not a recipe for happiness. If her ex’s goal is to be a parent, he has numerous more honorable routes through adoptive parenting or egg donor/surrogacy with another party.
Thanks for answering my question as someone who is more informed about the situation than I am, and not being an asshole or congratulating people on their assholery like other commenters here.
This dude just can’t let her go and is a creep. He wants to raise his “Little Sofias” and always have a piece of her rather she likes it or not. If what he really wants is to be a dad then this guy should get another surrogate, get some donor eggs, make some new little Nicks and move the hell on. He signed a contract (twice). End of story.
My husband and I did in vitro for our twins and we had to sign an agreement that said what would happen if we split up. Those agreements are pretty solid. She knows she doesn’t have anything to worry about.
Realistically, a couple of frozen embryos that are several years old from a 40 something-year-old woman are probably not going to result in a live baby anyway. Her chances with a fresh transfer our higher, but even then you’re probably looking at 25% under the best case scenario. A frozen transfer with older eggs? That’s not looking great.
Exactly. There isn’t a very good chance of these embryos making it to term anyway. The whole situation here is a mess.
Actually, I’m guessing they did the CCS (complete chromosomal sequencing) since she is older and they are rich. The chances of a tested embryo becoming a baby is 70% at my clinic, regardless of the age of the egg provider. I’m sure they went to a top notch clinic. But it doesn’t look so great that the other transfers failed. But with the advent of the Japanese method of vitrification or flash freezing, most frozen embryos survive the thaw, something like 98%.
This whole thing is just bizarre and I have no doubt he just wants power over Sofia and can’t let go of the fact that she’s moved on from him. It’s just a messed up way to go about it, he’s playing with two lives and it’s sick. From what I can tell they haven’t tried IVF since 2012 but only broke up last year, so why didn’t he keep trying on his own when they were still together? He needs to leave the embryos be and find a woman who actually wants children with him, good luck with that after this pathetic stunt.
GREAT FOR HER to stand up for herself. She’s been handling all this situation with nothing but class so far.
How sick this guy (Loeb) has to be to continue ranting with this story? He’s coming across as a controlling, vindictive, vicious little man. How can anyone trust him as a politician?! It’s time to move on!
Team Sofia!!
This guy is scary. For real for REAL scary. I heard he is going to be on the Today Show? Really NBC? Really?
Him and Matt “skeeve” Lauer. Perfect.Ugh.
That is disappointing! Why would they give him such a platform?
I am Team Sophia on this and believe he is one screwed up piece of work. (FYI–if you aren’t familiar with his family background, you may want to read up on it. His own upbringing was financially wealthy, but completely wack-o otherwise in a scary way. So I have empathy that he wasn’t raised in a loving, healthy home and the impact that can have–but that doesn’t change how wrong this situation is.)
The one thing that is bugging me is that their contract didn’t address how long the embryos would remain frozen if they didn’t mutually agree to their implantation into a surrogate. It should have done that. That should be an automatic, included part of these contracts. Without that–you have what you have here and by the way–she is being pretty silent on that point for her own selfish, brand reasons. They need to deal with this issue and no doubt it is going to take legal recourse to deal with it.
THANK YOU, Sophia. This whole “life begins at conception” crap is meaningless if we don’t care for what happens to the child after it is born. Bringing a child into the world that isn’t wanted as a tool of vengeance is a much worse evil than any destruction of embryos.
This is moral/emotional weaponry of the worst kind. This man clearly hasn’t got a smidgen of conscience. He’s using the issue of the embryos as a platform upon which to gain some traction with the religious right in a very obvious ploy to promote his so-called political career. I think this is going to backfire big time for him and maybe then he’ll just slink away with his tail between his legs – he was an abuser throughout their relationship and continues to abuse her by any means possible to seek some sort of revenge that she’s in a happy place.
Give up Loeb, mitigate the damage you’ve caused yourself and just go away.
Don’t throw me hate. But consider his side for a moment. They took this process up to the very edge. They fertilized the eggs. They know they are girls. Perhaps he became attached to these embryos emotionally as his daughters .
And if that was the case that’s fine but he still doesn’t get to throw a huge public tantrum and demonize the woman who contributed half the genetic material. He signed two different contracts stating he didn’t get to do anything with them without her consent, one would think if he was really attached to them he would have realised it after the first time.
If he wants kids so badly, why not find a woman who is actually willing to have them with him? Why force someone who’s not in love with you anymore to have a lifelong tie with you? It makes no sense. Unless something’s happened and he knows he’s shooting blanks.
She should have taken it more seriously, herself. I think he’s up to some hateful business here; but her eggs didn’t just pop out on their own. Team Unborn Babies
ita, i’m totally against him winning
but she went through this twice with some sketchball she wasnt legally tied to. i wonder if she just did it to appease him.
I am Colombian and I also like to follow a Colombian magazine that has all the scoop about famous people who visit our country. For example, Bill Clinton went to a restaurant in Bogota with members of the American Embassy and not only paid for everybody’s meal but was extremely generous on the tip and very gracious with the waiters. This creep Loeb has been embarrassing Sofia for a while. She brought him to Colombia and they flew to Bogota where they had dinner at a restaurant called “Andres carne the res”. She paid the bill for the whole group as she also footed the bill for the trip to Mexico where she got engaged with Loeb (over 60 people on a 5 star resort including private charter), it’s not a costume for the Colombian women to foot the bill, unless you are like 50 and get a 20 year old boyfriend that you have to support…. lol. She has been famous in Latin America since she was 17 years old when she did a diet pepsi commercial, she had a tv show in Univision “Fuera de Serie” where she flew all over the world visiting exotic places and she dated Luis Miguel (big time star who also dated Mariah Carey), Enrique Iglesias and among others an Arab Sheik who was extremely wealthy and generous with her. If you think she is beautiful now you had to see her in her 20’s. I saw her once at the Miami Airport and half of the Airport paralyzed when she walked by, she is drop dead gorgeous. She is also very charismatic, very Caribbean (loud, extrovert and funny) and her mom, aunt and cousins are as pretty as she is, it’s genetic, 2 of her cousins are very famous models. I can understand though why she broke up with the creep. Loeb embarrassed the hell out of Sofia when he brought samples of his “condiments” to the Golden globes and started to put them on the tables and also when they went to the Correspondent’s dinner at the White House and they were introduced to President Obama, he handed him a “barbeque” sample. When you are gorgeous as she is you definitely don’t have to play Sugar Mama as she did with Loeb, he comes from a prestigious money and his dad is rich, but he obviously not. He is a Politician wanna-be from the Tea Party who suddenly became very pro life and religious. Pfff. What a hypocrite, just like of his tea party buddies.
Thank you for sharing 🙂 it’s always intriguing to hear about a celebrity and their past and perception from their own homeland.